[Accessibility] OSM and accessibility for walking impaired and people with temporary or permanent reduced mobility

[Simone Gadenz]

Thanks, I'll have a look the next days and the get in touch again next week.

Cheers

Simone

2010/4/2 Lulu-Ann <Lulu-Ann at gmx.de>

>
>
> Simone Gadenz wrote:
>
> > As me and my colleagues to manage a participatory mapping process on
> > accessibility for wheelchairs and persons with reduced mobility. It is
> > set in a small town in the middle of Tuscany (around 20000 citizens),
> > We would be interested in sharing ideas, experiences, guidelines and
> > best practices with other users and participants to similar projects.
> >
> > The whole participatory mapping process will be using OSM as base map
> > for which we are the main contributors for the area of interest
> > ( http://osm.org/go/xX6gpfyw-- )  but we would like to adopt OSM
> > infrastructure also for collaboratively mapping the accessibility and
> > sharing the results.
> >
> > Should any of you being interested in opening a discussion, giving
> > suggestions or advising, please do not hesitate to contact me.
>
> Hello Simone,
>
> there is a project called "wheelmap" in Germany and another one called
> "Rollstuhlfahrer-Routing".
> You'll find links to these projects if you follow the OSM category
> called "Disabilities" or the wiki page "accessibility".
>
> For Wheelmap contact Raul Krauthausen, for Rollstuhlfahrer-Routing
> contact OSM user "Astrid".
>
> Make sure to use only agreed tags - there are some unagreed proposals
> for the wheelchair tag that won't work, see my comments on the talk
> page.
>
> Regards
> Lulu-Ann
>
>
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